Creative Project Manager

K18 is a company focused on hair freedom through biotech innovation. They are seeking a detail-oriented Creative Project Manager to oversee the creative development of visual merchandising and packaging initiatives, managing projects from start to finish while ensuring timelines and milestones are met.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage all the details throughout packaging, VM and print production related projects, ensuring all action-items are accomplished timely and accurately
• Responsible for scheduling, tracking, change management, evaluating, and controlling projects
• Develop, manage, and continuously adjust detailed project timelines to ensure creative milestones, cross-functional dependencies, and production deadlines are met
• Sets clear expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams accountable for work, communicating clearly to the team and providing proper materials/documentation when necessary
• Working knowledge of creative needs and expectations
• Identify where altered requirements will involve extra time or extra resources and efficiencies can be gained
• Assess needs and distribute work within a group from concept, development, approval and final production
• Collaborate daily with creative team and stakeholder counterparts
• Manages resource planning, engaging freelancers as needed
• Review and/or assist in developing Wrike creative requests
• Demonstrate good judgment in choosing methods of communication that are most effective and efficient within the team
• Able to track and analyze data related to creative output and provide insights into trends and help forecast for future needs

Requirements:

• 3+ years experience in Creative Project Management either in-house or at a creative agency
• 1+ years experience using Wrike project management tool
• Proven ability to work on multiple projects at a time within a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills
• Works well without supervision
• Thorough understanding of the design + creative production processes
• Must be able to work cooperatively with others and perform other job-related duties when assigned
• In-house experience in the beauty or fashion industry is a plus
• Experience working closely with visual merchandising and production teams also a plus